FORMULA OVERVIEW | KIKO Soft Touch Blush ($12.00 for 0.17 oz.) is supposed to be a “radiant and highly pigmented blush” with “long lasting colour.” It’s a powder blush that has a thinner, fairly smooth, blendable texture that ranges from semi-opaque to mostly opaque coverage. Most shades are matte to satin with the more matte shades still having a natural-looking finish to them (not flat or dry-looking applied). The wear has varied from six to eight hours depending on the shade.

Per readers comments, it appears these have been discontinued in some countries, though all shades except one appear to be available on the U.S. website. (It’s hard to tell if they’re just on sale, as they’re presently available for $3.90 a pop instead of $12, or if they are discounted to move, as I have seen KIKO do 30-50% off before.) I wasn’t intending to review these back-to-back but will be doing my best to get reviews out quickly in light of seeming to be discontinued. Readers have said the replacement is the Shade Fusion Trio Blush (which I haven’t tried, so I don’t know anything about), which would sure be a bummer, since it is more expensive and a trio of shades, so it is different enough that it doesn’t seem like a true replacement to me (boo!).

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Tammy B

That first look with the orange coral is just breath-taking! What eyeliner did you use for this look?

I already have better performing dupes for these, including MAC’s What I Fancy – love! And I noticed your’re wearing the new NARS spring shadows. I like playing with Tarvos. On it’s own, it’s a little too cool and frosty on my skin, but when I put it on top of a matte gray cream shadow, I get a really cool silvery green shimmer

Cute look with Orange Coral! I love those earrings! I just got Nars Cressida and Kari along with the CP lippie. So, maybe I’ll have to scale this look to fit me. You look so mermaid-ish! I love the other look too! Will you remind me of the seller on Etsy for your earrings? I’m actually shopping for a big nubby scarf on there. I may need some pretty jewelry to slide into the cart! lol.

I’ve ordered of few of these blushes since they are a great price. First time ordering from Kiko. I’m very fair and I ordered both of these. I think Candy Rose will be perfect, but for the Orange Coral one, I will have to use a very light hand!

I also ordered their foundation. It looks light enough to be a match for me. Fingers crossed! Looking forward to receiving my products. They seem to have products that worked for a variety of skin shades.

Orange Coral is such a perfectly spring-y shade! It’s sad that the formula is rather “off”, otherwise I’d need to get it. Hopefully, Spring Flock might still be around at the beginning of March, because even though I have quite a few darker and/or brighter blushes, I’m really beginning to like less intense shades, too.

The 2nd shade looks like it will be fabulous on fairer skintones! Like it would have a nice soft brightening effect. Beautiful!

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